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Chesapeake Bay Watershed #2
Troy Barthelme
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Science
7th Grade
10/07/2013

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what does sav stand for
Definition
submurged aquatic vegetation
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why are sav's important
Definition
food source
habitat
traps sediment protects floor from erosin
provides o2
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why are sav's dissapering
Definition
sediment smoothes and blocks sunglight
too many nutrients
algae bloom blocks sunglightchemicals killed it
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larvae
Definition
first stage of development in a being
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sooks
Definition
a female crab
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jimmies
Definition
a male crab
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molt
Definition
crab sheds its exoskeleton
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zoea
Definition
small first larvae
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megalops
Definition
the second stage of development
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zooplankton
Definition
zoea and megalops are zooplankton
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three years
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crabs live three years
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ten legs
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crabs have ten legs
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exoskeleton
Definition
skeleton on the outside
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legal sized
Definition
3 out of every 4 crabs legal sized crabs get csaught
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spat
Definition
juvenile attached oysters
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oyster must be
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three inches long
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oysters can
Definition
change gender
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oysters are
Definition
filter feaders
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oysters demise
Definition
overhavesting
MSX and dermo
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plankton
Definition
defined as organisms
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rockfish are also
Definition
striped bass
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maratorium
Definition
ban on fishing
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mature sripers like to eat
Definition
soft crabs, fish, and eal
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mature rockfish spend most of their life in
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the ocean
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whre juvenile fish first live
Definition
shallow marshes and grass beds
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counter shading
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camouflage
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why rockfish made a great recovery
Definition
five year matorium
resperation of spawning grounds
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how do menhaden eat
Definition
filter feaders
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what do they eat
Definition
phytoplankton or algae
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what are their predators
Definition
striped bass, bluefish
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what do humans use them for
Definition
animal food, crab and fish bait, oil, and protein source
Term
what is omega protein and what do they do
Definition
company that catches menhaden and proccess them into products
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terepan eats
Definition
mussels snails clams fish
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terepan is
Definition
only turtle in the world that lives in brackish water
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terepans shell
Definition
rings on shell tell age
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terepan size
Definition
females larger then males
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why population is down
Definition
used to be used in soup
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gender determanation
Definition
temperate determens gender
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